Contemporary Italian Art On-line Journal 

"Palinsesti" is a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to historical studies concerning Italian Art since 1960. Its third thematic issue is dedicated to the New Museology and the new criteria for displaying artworks in the museums.

In the last two decades traditional historical methods have been integrated with a plurality of outside discourses such as anthropology (H. Belting), ontological philosophy (A. Danto), critical iconology (W.J.T. Mitchell). These extra-disciplinary systems have rendered critical history more open and interdisciplinary, supplying alternative criteria to the usual taxonomy and temporality of historical models. All of this has had an important impact on the practices of museum display, as is demonstrated in the developing theories of New Museology and in the current growing emergence of thematic displays. Recent cases have also been seen in contemporary art museums in Italy, not without polemics and controversy.

The on-line journal Palinsesti invites proposals for contributions (max 40,000 characters) dedicated to the redefinition of Italian art between the 1960s and today in reaction to the changing conditions of museum exhibitions such as:

-The transition from chronological conditions to thematic ones in the permanent collections of Italian and foreign museums, and the methods of curating thematically organized exhibitions.
-The change of narrative, didactic, and expository functions of the museum.
-The new types of relations among works and architectural spaces.
In addition to the examples mentioned, we encourage research dedicated to the theme of historical curating, either thematic or chronological, in relation to the larger panorama of museum institutions, public and private exhibition spaces, and alternative spaces.

Deadline: December 31 2012. For submission instructions and other pertinent details, contact cfp@palinsesti.net

Editors
Paolo Campiglio (Università di Pavia, Italia)
Alessandro Del Puppo (Università di Udine, Italia)
Laura Iamurri (Università di Roma Tre, Italia)
Elizabeth Mangini (California College of Arts, San Francisco, USA)
Marina Pugliese (Museo del Novecento, Milano, Italia)
Elena Volpato (Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Torino, Italia)
Denis Viva (Università di Udine, Italia)

ISSN 2779-7882